But I want you to read it second, because what I found in. And so I think my investigation or my curiosity is not so much talking about poetry, but about where poetry comes from in us and what poetry works in us. And I always thought it was just because I had to work. And the one Id love you to read is Not the Saddest Thing in the World. This is the one where I felt like theres subtlety to it, but you just named so much in there. enough of the will to go on and not go on or how We orient away from the closure of fear and towards the opening of curiosity. We prioritize busyness. I trust those moments where it feels like, Oh, right, this is a weird. Language is strange, and its evolving. Yeah. and isnt that enough? This definitely speaks to that. With an unexpected and exuberant mix of gravity and laughter laughter of delight, and of blessed relief this conversation holds not only what we have traversed these last years, but how we live forward. I was like, Oh. Then I came downstairs and I was like, Lucas, Im never going to get to be Poet Laureate.. Yes. When I lived in New York City, my two best friends, I would always try to get them to go to yoga with me. I feel like our breath is so important to how we move through the world, how we react to things. Its so interesting because I feel like one of the things as you age, as an artist, as a human being, you start to rethink the stories that people have told you and start to wonder what was useful and what was not useful. Youre going to be like, huh. Or youll just be like, That makes total sense to me., At the top of the mountain At a special TEDPrize@UN, journalist Krista Tippett deconstructs the meaning of compassion through several moving stories, and proposes a new, more attainable definition for the word. And yet at the same time, I do feel like theres this Its so much power in it. like water, elemental, and best when its humbled, brought to its knees, clung to by someone who. Limn: Yeah. recycling bin until you say, Man, we should really learn I think I trusted its unknowing and its mystery in a way that I distrusted maybe other forms of writing up until then. Where being at ease is not okay. I trust those moments where it feels like, Oh, right, this is a weird. Language is strange, and its evolving. And shes animated by questions emerging from those loves and from the science she does which we scarcely know how to take seriously amidst so much demoralizing bad ecological news. But then I just examine all the different ways of being quiet. That is real but its not the whole story of us. (Always, always there is war and bombs.) Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower scratched and stopped to the original So Im hoping. It makes room for all of these things that can also be It holds all the truths at once too. [laughs]. I think its very dangerous not to have hope. people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds. And theyre like, Oh, I didnt know that was a thing. [laughs]. We understand love as the most reliably transformative muscle of human wholeness, and we investigate the workings of love as public practice. Why dont you read The Quiet Machine? People will ask me a lot about my process and it is, like I said, silence. Also because so much of whats been and again, its not just in the past, what has happened, has been happening below the level of consciousness in our bodies. And then you can also be like, Im a little anxious about this thing thats happening next week. Or all of these things, it makes room for all of those things. edges of the world, smudged by mist, a squirrels. So its actually about fostering yourself in the sun, in the right place, creating the right habitat. Many of us were having different experiences. In between my tasks, I find a dead fledgling, I dont even mourn him, just all matter-of-, fact-like take the trowel, plant the limp body, thing, forever close-eyed, under a green plant, in the ground, under the feast up above. Limn: Right. Before the dogs chain. And it feels important to me whenever Im in a room right now and I havent been in that many rooms with this many people sitting close together that we all just acknowledge that even if we all this exact same configuration of human beings had sat in this exact room in February 2020, and were back now, were changed at a cellular level. These are heavier, page 86 and page 87. What was it? Foundations 4: Calling and Wholeness On Being with Krista Tippett Society & Culture In the modern western world, vocation was equated with work. All year, in an oblivion-is-coming sort of way. My body is for me. [audience laughter] And it really struck me that how much I was like, How do I move through this world? Remembering what it is to be a body, I think to be a woman who moves through the world with a body, who gets commented on the body. But if you look at even the letters we use in our the A actually was initially a drawing of an ox, and M was water. Discoveries about the gut microbiome, for example, and the gut-brain axis; the fascinating vagus nerve and the power of the neurotransmitters we hear about in piecemeal ways in discussions around mental health. On Being is an independent nonprofit production of The On Being Project. days a little hazy with fever and waiting The fear response, the stress response, it had so many other kinds of ripple effects that were so perplexing. Tippett: Because I couldnt decide which ones I wanted you to read. adrienne maree brown "We are in a time of new suns" On Being with Krista Tippett Society & Culture "What a time to be alive," adrienne maree brown has written. And it wasnt until really, when I was writing that poem that the word came to me. These are heavier, page 86 and page 87. fact-like take the trowel, plant the limp body is so bright and determined like a flame, I think grief is something that is very We have so much to grieve even as we have so much to walk towards. Tippett: Thank you. This means that I am in a reciprocal relationship with the natural world, not that it is my job to be the poet that goes and says, Tree, I will describe it to you. [audience laughs] I have a lot of poems that basically are that. A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. Why are all these blank spaces? It has silence built all around it. Yeah, I think theres so much value in grief. She is a former host of the poetry podcast. bliss before you know For me, I have pain, so Ive moved through the body in pain. Krista Tippett is the creator and host of the On Being and Becoming Wise podcasts as well as curator of The Civil Conversations Project. Good conflict. Technology and vitality. Then in 2018, she published a brilliant essay called "Complicating the Narratives," which she opened by confessing a professional existential crisis. And it really struck me that how much I was like, How do I move through this world? Remembering what it is to be a body, I think to be a woman who moves through the world with a body, who gets commented on the body. We honor poets and poetry as necessary companions in mustering words spacious and generous enough to reach across the mystery of ourselves and the mystery of each other. So it was always this level in which what was being created and made as he was in my life was always musical. And when so much of the natural world was burned, and I kept thinking about all the trees and the birds and the wildlife. Yeah. Its the . So would you read, its called Before, page 46. And its continual and that it hits you sometimes. back and forth on Sundays and it was not easy It is still the river. You said a minute ago that the poetry has breath built into it, and you said also that, you have said: its meant to make us breathe. is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Anthem. And its true. Krista Tippett, host of award-winning NPR program "On Being", and poet David Whyte discusses several of the life-sized concepts addressed in Tippet's book, _. We have been in the sun. So we have to do this another time. And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. Its so interesting because I feel like one of the things as you age, as an artist, as a human being, you start to rethink the stories that people have told you and start to wonder what was useful and what was not useful. Yeah. No, really I was. I grew up in Glen Ellen in Sonoma, California, born and raised. I guess maybe you had to quit doing that since you had this new job. And thought, How am I right now at this moment? Okay. Just back to this idea that there is this organic automatically breathing thing of which were part, and that we even have to rediscover that. Limn: Yeah, I had a moment where I hadnt realized how delighted I was to go about my world without my body. And the next one is Dead Stars. Which follows a little bit in terms of how do we live in this time of catastrophe that also calls us to rise and to learn and to evolve. beneath us, and I was just The great eye. kitchen tables, two sets of rules, two Thats page 95. Where being at ease is not okay. And theyre like, Oh, I didnt know that was a thing.. And the Sonoma Coast is a really special place in terms of how its been preserved and protected throughout the years. And I think there was a part of me that felt like so much of what I had read up until then was meant to instruct or was meant to offer wisdom. This is like a self-care poem. Actually, thats in Bright Dead Things. What is the thesis word or the wind? And thought, How am I right now at this moment? Okay. Alice Parker is a wise and joyful thinker and writer on this truth, and has been a hero in the universe of choral music as a composer . Youre very young. Theres how I dont answer the phone, and how I sometimes like to lie down on the floor in the kitchen and pretend Im not home when people knock. From Feb 2: three months of soaring conversations to live and grow with with an eye towards emergence. And even as it relieves us of the need to sum everything up. And then Ill say this, that the Library of Congress, theyre amazing, and the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, had me read this poem, so. She is a former host of the poetry podcast The Slowdown, and she teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. It was interesting to me to realize how people turned to you in pandemic because of who you are, it sounds like. love it again, until the song in your mouth feels Shes teaching me a lesson. We read for sense. Two entirely different brains. You should take a nap.. And that between space was the only space that really made sense to me. I love that you do this. Because how do we care for one another? I just saw her. And I found it really useful, a really useful tool to go back in and start to think about what was just no longer true, or maybe had never been true. So maybe just to use a natural world metaphor to just dip our toes into the water, would you read Sanctuary? I think there were these moments that that quietness, that aloneness, that solitude, that as hard as they were, I think hopefully weve learned some lessons from that. And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg, my brother and my husband to witness this, nearly clear body. And together you kind of have this relationship. Which I hadnt had before. When you find a song or you find something and you think, This. And: advance invitations and news on all things On Being, of course. We were so focused on survival and illness and vaccines and bad news. And there was an ease, I think, that living in the head-only world was kind of a poets dream on some level. And then you go, Oh no, no, thats just recycling. So thats in the poem. And I think its in that category. We endeavor to make goodness and complexity riveting. And to feel that moment of everyone recognizing what it is to kind of look out for one another and have to do that in the antithesis of who we are, which was to separate. My familys all in California. Precisely at a moment like this, of vast aching open questions and very few answers we can agree on, our questions themselves become powerful tools for living and growing. Tippett: Look at all these people. And the one Id love you to read is Not the Saddest Thing in the World. This is the one where I felt like theres subtlety to it, but you just named so much in there. The On Being Project is located on Dakota land. [Music: Seven League Boots by Zo Keating]. Tippett: I feel like it brings us back to wholeness somehow. (Unedited) The Dalai Lama, Jonathan Sacks, Katharine Jefferts Schori, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Krista Tippett. On Being Studios's tracks [Unedited] Ocean Vuong with Krista Tippett by On Being Studios And now we have watched it in these 25 years go from strength, to strength, to strength. It is still the river. Before the ceramics in the garbage. and buried, I go about my day, which isnt, ordinary, exactly, because nothing is ordinary creeks, two highways, two stepparents This conversational nature of reality indeed, this drama of vitality is something we have all been shown, willing or unwilling, in these years. But I think there was something deeper going on there, which was that idea of, Oh, this is when you pack up and you move. And I even had a pet mouse named Fred, which you would think I wouldve had a more creative name for the mouse, but his name was Fred. Limn: Oh, thank you. And there are times where I think people have said as a child, Oh, you come from a broken home. And I remember thinking, Its not broken, its just bigger. Tippett: That just took me back to this moment in the pandemic where I took so many walks in my neighborhood that Ive lived in for so many years and saw things Id never seen before, including these massive Just suddenly looking down where the trees were and seeing and understanding, just really having this moment where I understood that its their neighborhood and Im living in it. She hosted On Being on the radio for about two decades. And you could so a lot of what he knew in Spanish and remembered in Spanish were songs. But let me say, I was taken I write the year, seems like a year you Sometimes it sounds, sometimes its image, sometimes its a note from a friend with the word lover. So it had this kind of wonderful way of existing in an aliveness of a language, aliveness of a second language as opposed to just sort of a need to get something or to use. squeal with the idea of blissful release, oh lover. wind? What Amanda has been gathering by way of answers to that question is an extraordinary gift to us all. Tippett: Yeah. Science and the Human Spirit. It unfolded at the Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis, in collaboration with Northrop at the University of Minnesota and Ada Limns publisher, Milkweed Editions. Articles by Krista Tippett on Muck Rack. Limn: It is still the wind. And I remember sitting on my sofa where I spent an inordinate amount of time, and reading it. Tippett: So at this point in my notes, I have three words in bold with exclamation points. I mean, isnt this therapeutic also for us all to laugh about this now, also to know that we can laugh about it now? Funny thing about grief, its hold And when people describe you as a poet, theyll talk about things about intimacy and emotional sincerity and your observations of the natural world. Its a prose poem. And there are times where I think people have said as a child, Oh, you come from a broken home. And I remember thinking, Its not broken, its just bigger. And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. And were at a new place, but we have to carry and process that. Were back at the natural world of metaphors and belonging. Its the thing that keeps us alive. Im like, Yes. And I want you to read it. And if its weekly, theres a day of the week and you do it. chaotic track. It wasnt used as a tool. for the safety of others, for earth, And then what we find in the second poem is a kind of evolution. Im so excited for your tenure representing poetry and representing all of us, and Im excited that you have so many more years of aging and writing and getting wiser ahead, and we got to be here at this early stage. On Being with Krista Tippett. Dacher Keltner and his Greater Good Science Center at Berkeley have been pivotal in this emergence. But I do think youre a bit of a So the thing is, we have this phrase, old and wise. But the truth is that a lot of people just grow old, it doesnt necessarily come with it. You said there in a place, as Ive aged, I have more time for tenderness, for the poems that are so earnest they melt your spine a little. Oh my. But I love it. That its not my neighborhood, and they look beautiful. Learn more at. Subscribe to the live your best life newsletter Sign up for the oprah.com live your best life newsletter Get more stories like this delivered to your inbox Get updates on your favorite . And I feel like the thing that always kept coming back to me, especially in the early days was, What does it do? Well right now it anchors you to the world again and again and again. Shes written six books of poetry, most recently, The Hurting Kind. Tippett: I do feel like you were one of the people who was really writing with care and precision and curiosity about what we were going through. So my interest, when I get into conversation with a poet, is not to talk, poetry, but to delve into what this way with words and sound and silence teaches us. The fear response, the stress response, it had so many other kinds of ripple effects that were so perplexing. That just took me back to this moment in the pandemic where I took so many walks in my neighborhood that Ive lived in for so many years and saw things Id never seen before, including these massive Just suddenly looking down where the trees were and seeing and understanding, just really having this moment where I understood that its their neighborhood and Im living in it. And sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. And: advance invitations and news on all things On Being, of course. that thered be nothing left in you, like and over against the ground, sometimes. Krista Tippett: I really believe that poetry is something we humans need almost as much as we need water and air. We are in the final weeks as On Being evolves to its next chapter in a world that is evolving, each of us changed in myriad ways we've only begun to process and fathom. I have, before, been, tricked into believing Limn: Yeah. And both parents all four of my parents, I should say would point those things out, that special quality of connectedness that the natural world offers us. Limn: Yeah. Creativity. by being not a witness, So its a very special place. The science of awe. And if you cant have hope, I think we need a little awe, or a little wonder, or at least a little curiosity. Limn: Because I love this poem, and no one has ever asked me to read this poem. bury yourself in leaves, and wait for a breaking, So I want to do two more, also from. I love that you do this. I never go there very much anymore. But I do think youre a bit of a So the thing is, we have this phrase, old and wise. But the truth is that a lot of people just grow old, it doesnt necessarily come with it. We read for sense. to pick with whoever is in charge. And I think for all of us, kind of mark this, which is important. Kalliopeia Foundation. Tippett: Would you read this poem, The End of Poetry, which I feel speaks to that a bit. So how to get out? And so I have And I would just have these whole moments when people would be like, Oh, and then well meet in person. And I was like, , I dont want you to witness my body. It brings us back to something your grandmother was right about, for reasons she would never have imagined: you are what you eat. The On Being Project is located on Dakota land. Would you read this poem, The End of Poetry, which I feel speaks to that a bit. Its wonderful. So you get to have this experience with language that feels somewhat disjointed, and in that way almost feels like, Oh, this makes more sense as the language for our human experience than, lets say, a news report.. Im really longing I realized as I was preparing for this, Im just Of course, I read poetry, I read a lot of poetry in these last years, but I realized Im craving hearing poetry. Sylvia gifts us this teaching: that nurturing childrens inner lives can be woven into the fabric of our days and that nurturing ourselves is also good for the children and everyone else in our lives. enough of the animal saving me, enough of the high We value the ancient power of storytelling, and we get that good stories require conflict, characters and scene. Sometimes it feels like language and poetry, I often start with sounds. Tippett: Was there a religious or spiritual background in your childhood there, however you would describe that now? At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. So its a very special place. I think thats very true. And: advance invitations and news on all things On Being, of course, The On Being Project And I feel like poetry makes the world for that experience, as opposed to: Im fine.. So my interest, when I get into conversation with a poet, is not to talk about poetry, but to delve into what this way with words and sound and silence teaches us about being fully human this adventure were all on that is by turns treacherous and heartbreaking and revelatory and wondrous. But its also a land that is really incredibly beautiful and special and sacred in a lot of different ways. joy, foundational, that brief kinship of hold Yeah. This idea of original belonging, that we are home, that we have enough, that we are enough. We nurture virtues that build muscle memory towards sustained new realities including generous listening, embodied presence, and transformative relationship across backgrounds and lived experience. And thats also not the religious association with Sunday, right? For me, I have pain, so Ive moved through the body in pain. But I also feel a little bit out of practice with this live event thing. Is it okay? The danger of all poets and I think artists in general, is it some moment we think we dont deserve to do this work because what does it do? Because I was teaching on Zoom, and I was just a face, and I found myself being very comfortable with just being a face, and with just being a head. We inhabit a liminal time between what we thought we knew and what we cant quite yet see. So I think were going to just have a lot of poetry tonight. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. Limn: That you can be joyful and you can actually be really having a wonderful time. I think I enjoy getting older. some new constellations. What is the thesis word or the wind? All right. You boiled it down. the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands And they would say, I dont want to go to yoga. And I was like, Why? And they said, I just dont want anyone telling me when to breathe. [laughter] But its true. In between my tasks, I find a dead fledgling, On Being with Krista Tippett | 5 minute podcast summaries on Apple . Two families, two different two brains now. but witnessed. people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds. I think coming back to this idea that poetry is as embodied as it is linguistic. And sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. Yet what Amanda has gone on to investigate and so, so helpfully illuminate is not just about journalism, or about politics. [laughter] Sometimes its just staring out the window. I really believe that poetry is something we humans need almost as much as we need water and air. She is a former host of the poetry podcast, The Slowdown, and she teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. I was actually born at home. We journalists, she wrote, "can summon outrage in five words or Yeah, Ive got a lot of feelings moving through me. A student of change and of how groups change together. Amanda Ripley began her life as a journalist covering crime, disaster, and terrorism. One of the most popular episodes in the history of "On Being," the 15-year-old public-radio program hosted by the honey-voiced Krista Tippett, is a conversation Tippett had more than ten years ago with the late Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue on the subject of the inner landscape of beauty. I think this poem, for me, is very much about learning to find a home and a sense of belonging in a world where being at peace is actually frowned upon. And it was an incredible treat to interview her before 1,000 people, packed together in a concert hall on a cold Minnesota night. So well just be on an adventure together. And then you can also be like, Im a little anxious about this thing thats happening next week. Or all of these things, it makes room for all of those things. Look, we are not unspectacular things. How are you?. the world walking in, ready to be ravaged, open for business. Then in 2018, she published a brilliant essay called Complicating the Narratives, which she opened by confessing a professional existential crisis. I mean, thats how we read. no hot gates, no house decayed. the ego and the obliteration of ego, enough Where some of you were like, Eww, as soon as I said it. The poets brain is always like that, but theres a little I was just doing the wash, and I was like, Casual, warm, and normal. And I was like, Ooh, I could really go for that.. So it was always this level in which what was being created and made as he was in my life was always musical. Just uncertainty is so hard on our bodies. It comes back to these questions of like, Why do I get to be lucky in this way? the trash, the rolling containers a song of suburban thunder. Limn: Kind of true. not forgetting and star bodies and frozen birds, enough of the will to go on and not go on or how, a certain light does a certain thing, enough, of the kneeling and the rising and the looking. Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg I was actually born at home. Many have turned to David Whyte for his gorgeous, life-giving poetry and his wisdom at the interplay of theology, psychology, and leadership his insistence on the power of a beautiful question and of everyday words amidst the drama of work as well as the drama of life. The On Being Project I remember writing this poem because I really love the word lover, and its a kind of polarizing word. And that there was this break when we moved from pictographic language, which is characters which directly refer to the things spoken, and when we moved to the phonetic alphabet. Limn: Exactly. could save the hireling and the slave? SHARE 'It's a hard time in the life of the world' a conversation with Krista Tippett. and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot, We point out the stars that make Orion as we take out you look back and beg by even the ageless woods, the shortgrass plains, Find them at, Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. And I am so thrilled to have this conversation with Ada Limn to be part of our first season. And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. On Being, which began on public radio, has been named a best podcast by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, the Webbys, iHeart Radio with more than 400 million downloads. Find them at fetzer.org. Limn: Yeah. Limn: And I would just have these whole moments when people would be like, Oh, and then well meet in person. And I was like, [sharp breath] I dont want you to witness my body. 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